Dreyer Tree » Isak Jacobus Kennedy (1915-)

Birthday November 12, 1915

• The temperature on November 12, 1915 was between 4.5 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 25.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
  • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
  • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and academic († 1991)
• 1914 » Peter Whitehead, English race car driver († 1958)
• 1915 » Roland Barthes, French philosopher, theorist, and critic († 1980)
• 1916 » Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic († 2000)
• 1916 » Paul Emery, English race car driver († 1993)
• 1917 » Jo Stafford, American singer († 2008)